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everyone, I am in the pre surgery, looking at a surgery date of end of November/beginning of December. But I was hoping to hear from sleevers who were/are diabetics and how your diabetes has changed since surgery, and if you wish you had done RNY instead. I'm a type 2 diabetic, horrible blood sugars and on multiple medications (insulin, victoza, amyral, metformin and invokana). So I am primarily looking at surgery for blood sugar control help. I'm 5'10" and 250. Weight loss will be a bonus but I'm trying trying to decide which surgery is better for blood sugar control. My endocrinologist suggested sleeve surgery but the surgeon thinks RNY. I'd be so greatful to hear how it helped you. I posted this in the sleeve section as well- since I would like to hear about both surgeries. Thank you so much!

@@loves dogs if you read older posts/comments you'll see that I've gone into remission from diabetes as well. No RNY necessary.

@@MaryCatherine please see above as I have mentioned I have gone into remission using the sleeve. As my surgeon told me, it's only partially related to the surgery, the largest part is up to us and our day to day lives and how hard we work. In my case, weight lifting and cardio/HIIT training has the biggest affect on my blood sugars.

@@godblessedchild please don't get down on yourself if it's not in remission that fast. If you've been a diabetic for any length of time, and at 9.8 I'm guessing you were, it will take time. Exercise once you are able is key. I gained full control of my diabetes, going from 10.9 at surgery to 5.6 in 6 months after surgery only having lost 50lbs (only need to lose 75 to be at goal weight from starting weight, and am now 4 pounds from goal weight after 10 months) but the weight lifting and exercise is what has gotten me the best control over my sugars. Surgery is a tool, you have to do the work though.

Well I've proved everyone here wrong. I ended up getting the sleeve and after only 6 months, my a1c is down from 10.9 at surgery date 12/22/15 to 5.3 as of Mid July. I'm off all meds but the metformin because I still have PCOS and will probably take the metformin for life. I'm so glad I got the sleeve, my recovery was quicker, I'm losing weight slower, which for a person like me only needing to lose 75-80lbs total, that's a good thing, and it's allowing me to become the athlete I always wanted to be because I can still eat enough to fuel my body for the 10k's I'm running and all the weights I'm lifting. I hope other people read this and see that you don't have to do RNY to gain control and reverse diabetes!

Hi everyone, I am in the pre surgery, looking at a surgery date of end of November/beginning of December. But I was hoping to hear from sleevers who were/are diabetics and how your diabetes has changed since surgery, and if you wish you had done RNY instead. I'm a type 2 diabetic, horrible blood sugars and on multiple medications (insulin, victoza, amyral, metformin and invokana). So I am primarily looking at surgery for blood sugar control help. I'm 5'10" and 250. Weight loss will be a bonus but I'm trying trying to decide which surgery is better for blood sugar control. My endocrinologist suggested sleeve surgery but the surgeon thinks RNY. I'd be so greatful to hear how it helped you. Thank you!

I invested in the Fitbit surge- I love how easy it makes it to check my stats, and I've been walking a lot more since I got it!